Ciara Mageean
Mageean in 2022 | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Born | 12 March 1992 Portaferry, County Down, Northern Ireland |
| Height | 170 cm (5 ft 7 in) |
| Weight | 55 kg (121 lb) |
| Sport | |
| Country | Ireland Northern Ireland |
| Sport | Athletics |
Event | Middle-distance running |
| Coached by | Helen Clitheroe (2022–) Steve Vernon (2017–21) Jerry Kiernan (–2017) |
| Achievements and titles | |
| Personal bests | |
Medal record | |
Ciara Mageean (/ˈkɪərə məˈɡiːən/ KEER-ə mə-GHEE-ən; born 12 March 1992) is a middle-distance runner from Portaferry in Northern Ireland who specialises in the 1500 metres. She is the 2024 European Athletics Championships gold medalist at the distance, the first individual Irish European champion since Sonia O'Sullivan.
She is a four-time European Athletics Championship medallist at the event, having also won bronze in 2016, silver in 2022 outdoors and bronze in 2019 indoors. Mageean also won silver at the 2022 Commonwealth Games. She won three silver medals at World and European level in the U-18 and U-20 age groups. She represented Ireland at both the 2016 Rio Olympics and 2020 Tokyo Olympics. She holds four Irish records and is a multiple national champion.